In a list with a field type “Choice” you can know available options of this field from codebehind without reading all list values and not making them unique with Distinct(). Especially, you can’t just read and make Distinct() list values if your field allows multiple choice or if you don't have all options. (read more...)

Today I needed to know a quantity of SharePoint List. Somewhy SharePoint doen't give this information using common tools. But using PowerShell it appeared to do easy. (read more...)

Working with SharePoint lists I often use lookup values. But when I write C# solutions for lists I have some difficulties with LookUp Values. Trying to get LookUp Value as string it looks like "213;#lookup value". (read more...)

For deleting SharePoint groups you can use SharePoint Designer. For this you should open site in SPDesigner, in left column goto "Site Groups", select groups for deleting and press Delete button on keyboard or in ribbon. But this process doesn't always work. And when I wanted to remove user groups SPDesigner hanged and reported error of deleting. (read more...)

If you made a developer machine for SharePoint on Windows 7 (x64), you must remember - run visual studio only "Run as administrator" even if your account is administrator for developing SharePoint solutions.

Or you can turn off ULC but I don't recomend it.

While testing SharePoint solution with SPLists I often need empty list. I'd like to have analog for "Truncate" in SQL, but there's nothing for SharePoint.

So I wrote a short PowerShell script for deleting all items in SharePoint List. Here it is (read more...)

I have added a solution for Sharepoint 2010 with PowerShell and wanted to install it. But While installing a solution I got an error:

Install-SPSolution : Admin SVC must be running in order to create deployment timer job. (read more...)

Today I tried to delete a SharePoint site (SPWeb) with child sites inside. I tried to delete it form administrator interface but I got an error. Something was wrong with templates or site structure. So I decided to use PowerShell for SharePoint. (read more...)